It’s not often that a Grade II stakes steals the spotlight on a racing card that includes three Grade I events, including the storied Big ’Cap, but that’s the scenario Saturday at Santa Anita.

In what shapes up as the most intriguing Kentucky Derby prep race since Nyquist squared off against Mohaymen in the 2016 Florida Derby, the unbeaten McKinzie and Bolt d’Oro, the No. 1-rated horse in this newspaper’s Derby rankings, are ready for a showdown in the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes.

There is a 100 percent chance of rain Saturday, according to weather.com, and it’s supposed to start falling sometime in late morning, but that doesn’t faze Bolt d’Oro’s trainer, Mick Ruis.

“We are running,” Ruis said in a text message this week when asked if a wet track might further delay his colt’s 3-year-old debut. The son of Medaglia d’Oro has not raced since a third-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar on Nov. 4 because his training schedule was set back by a pulled muscle.

He apparently is as good as ever now, though Ruis has said he has Bolt d’Oro only about 80 percent cranked for the San Felipe.

Ruis is looking farther down the road to the San Anita Derby on April 7 and Churchill Downs four weeks later.

Phenomenal might also be the word to best describe McKinzie’s early career. The Street Sense colt has won three consecutive races, aided by a disqualification in the Grade I Los Alamitos Futurity on Dec. 9, and comes into the San Felipe off his most impressive race to date when he won the Grade III Sham Stakes by 3 1/2 lengths on Jan. 6.

“He’s trained really well,” said trainer Bob Baffert, looking for his record seventh victory in the San Felipe and third in the past four years. “It’s always a tough race, but he’s doing well. We’re happy with the way we’re going in there.”

McKinzie, who will be ridden by Mike Smith, drew the No. 4 post in the eight-horse lineup and is the 8-5 morning-line favorite. Bolt d’Oro, who gets four-time Eclipse Award-winning rider Javier Castellano in the irons, is the 2-1 second choice.

The San Felipe is the sixth race on an 11-race program and is scheduled to go postward at about 2:55 p.m.

A quick rundown on Saturday’s three Grade I races:

• Accelerate is the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the 81st running of the Santa Anita Handicap, which drew a field of eight. The $600,000 purse is the lowest the race has offered since 1985.

Baffert has two contenders in the race — 7-2 third choice Hoppertunity, who’s banked more than $4.3 million in his career, and Mubtaahij, who is 4-1 and a viable threat in a field that lacks major star power.

• Breeders’ Cup Mile champion World Approval is a deserving 4-5 morning-line favorite in the $400,000 Kilroe Mile, which also attracted Om, Channel Maker and Bowies Hero. Flavien Prat will ride the favorite.

• City of Light, who won the opening-day Malibu Stakes, is the 6-5 morning-line favorite in the $400,000 Triple Bend Stakes, which kicks off the stakes festivities in the fourth race at about 1:45 p.m.

The Triple Bend will have only five horses after the connections for Giant Expectations decided Friday to run in the Big ‘Cap.

STAKES MENUWhat: Three Grade I races and one Grade II event.When: Saturday.Where: Santa Anita Park.Stars come out: Kentucky Derby hopefuls McKinzie and Bolt d’Oro square off in the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes at about 2:55 p.m.Tradition: The 81st running of the $600,000 Big ’Cap drew a field of eight, including Accelerate (5-2), Fear the Cowboy (3-1) and Hoppertunity (7-2). Post time is about 5 p.m.First race: NoonTV: TVG